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| Director: | Richard C. Sarafian |
| Studio: | 20th Century Fox |
| Producer: | Michael Pearson, Norman Spencer |
| Writer: | Malcolm Hart, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Barry Hall |
| Rated: | R |
| Date Added: | 2015-07-03 |
| UPC: | 024543527145 |
| Price: | $34.98 |
| Genre: | Action & Adventure |
| Release: | 2009-02-24 |
| IMDb: | 0067927 |
| Location: | BR0211 |
| Duration: | 99 |
| Picture Format: | Widescreen |
| Aspect Ratio: | 1.85:1 |
| Sound: | AC-3 |
| Languages: | English, Spanish, French |
| Subtitles: | English, Spanish |
| Features: | • Audio Commentary by director Richard C. Sarafian (on both versions)
• US and longer UK versions (seamlessly branched)
• "Built for Speed: A Look Back at Vanishing Point" - featurette (HD - 17:49 min)
• "A-5599 About the Car" - featurette (HD - 10:19 min)
• "1970 Dodge Challenger" - interactive feature
• "Virtual Dashboard" - interactive feature
• "Vanishing Point Trivia Challenge"- trivia track
• "Cars, Cops and Culture" - 70's trivia track
• "Super Soul Me" - bonus view picture-in-picture video commentary (30:40 min)
• TV spot 1 (0:22 min)
• TV spot 2 (1:03 min)
• Theatrical trailer (5:03 min)
• Enhanced for D-Box Motion Controls
• Bonus trailers for:
- The Transporter (1:27 min)
- Speed (2:41 min)
- Street Kings (1:22 min) |
Summary: Art film and road movie collide for "Vanishing Point", an existential car chase across the desert in a post "Easy Rider" America. Barry Newman stars as Kowalski, a taciturn driver who bets that he can drive a new Dodge Challenger from Denver to San Francisco in 15 hours. He loads up on amphetamines and begins his odyssey through the contemporary west while a funky black DJ (Cleavon Little) turns the driver into a folk hero and broadcasts advice on dodging the cops. It's like a counterculture precursor to "Smokey and the Bandit", with the road as the last bastion of freedom and the DJ as a combination commentator and mystical guide. The slim plot offers a network of society drop-outs that aid the "last free Man on Earth" (as the DJ describes him) on his obscure but obviously symbolic quest while flashbacks paint Kowalski as a world-weary hero. It doesn't really make much sense, but the amazing car chases and excellent stunt work are stunningly set against the American west, beautifully captured by cinematographer John A. Alonzo. "Vanishing Point" is most assuredly a product of its time, the heady, anything-goes era of rebellion in the early 1970s.
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Vanishing Point - BluRay
(2009)